From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 14 7:30:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smart.visp-europe.psi.com (smart.visp-europe.psi.com [212.222.105.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E90A37B614 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 07:30:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jnickelsen@acm.org) Received: from ip116.berlin63.pub-ip.de.psi.net ([154.15.63.116] helo=goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de) by smart.visp-europe.psi.com with esmtp (Exim 3.14 #1) id 12qzPd-0004f6-00 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 14 May 2000 16:30:34 +0200 Received: by goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de (Postfix, from userid 100) id 6528E224A; Sun, 14 May 2000 16:30:19 +0200 (CEST) To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org.nospam Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? References: <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <200005132348.QAA17056@sharmas.dhs.org> From: Juergen Nickelsen Date: 14 May 2000 16:30:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: Arun Sharma's message of "Sat, 13 May 2000 16:48:16 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "Canyonlands" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Arun Sharma writes on freebsd-chat: > Are you implying that communism and free speech are antonyms ? I think, > communism and free speech are quite compatible, at least in theory. In theory, yes, but I have yet to see a free-speech compatible implementation of communism. Of the three main ones China, North Korea, and the Soviet including its derivatives, the two former are deploying crude protection mechanisms, and the latter crashed when it ceased to do so. -- Juergen Nickelsen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message